Are Orthodox Involved?

I have more than once come across Orthodox people, am actually a Catholic revert from them.

A) At some of the points, I have come across people trying to suggest I'm a "Fool for Christ". This is a type of spirituality which is pretty exclusive to the Orthodox, as this list will suggest:

Andrew the Fool[25] (Constantinople, 936)		Simeon the Holy Fool[28] (Edessa, Turkey / Emesa, Syria, in the time of Justinian I or Maurice)
Basil Fool for Christ[26] (Moscow, 1550's)		Justo Gallego Martínez[32] (Mejorada del Campo, Madrid, Spain, 2021)
Benedict Joseph Labre[27] (Frenchman in Rome, 1783)		Nicholas the Pilgrim[3] (Trani, Apulia, Italy, 1094)
David the Dendrite[28] (Thessalonika, c. 540)		Nicholas Salos of Pskov[33] (Nicholas Salos of Pskov, 1576)
Francis of Assisi[27] (Porziuncola of Assisi, 1226)		Procopius of Ustyug[34] (German in Ustyug, N. Russia, 1303)
Saint Isidora[29] (Tabenna, Egypt, bef. 365)		Saint Gabriel of Georgia (Mtskheta, Georgia, 1995)
John of Moscow[30] (Rostov, Russia, 1589)		Xenia of Saint Petersburg[35] (Saint Petersburg, yes, really, c. 1803)
John the Hairy[31] (=John the Merciful of Rostov, 1581)

I'm arguing, no, the three Roman Catholics who stayed so (Procopius started out as RC in Lübeck), and especially the two whose sanctity is since long (before Vatican II, both cases) established, do not belong. St. Francis didn't try out his life without property as a personal eccentricity, he attracted followers and made a rule for them and got it approved by Pope Innocent III. Neither the English, nor the Russian and Ukrainian wikis for him describe him as "fool for Christ" and the only occasion on which he was taken for mentally ill was when a Muslim Sultan spared his life after he had spoken out against Muhammed and the Quran. If some haven't noticed, France is so far not a Sultanate.

Benedict Joseph Labre tried three monasteries, was rejected, accepted as a Franciscan Tertiary and used personal poverty without public vows as a way of compensating for the loss of normal life as a Trappist, Cistercian or Carthusian. A similar thing is true of Justo Gallego Martínez, who also got rejected from the Trappists, for health reasons, in his case diagnosed TB.

Personally, I certainly wouldn't have tried to build a Cathedral from junk. But he didn't live in personal poverty, he just dedicated all he could get from selling or renting out terrains and from donations to his work. If people described him as a "fool for Christ" that was in reference to saints or supposed such he didn't live exactly like, not because he actually lived like Xenia of Moscow, sorry, St. Petersburg or Gabriel of Georgia.

Even when I when I was Orthodox and venerated Xenia of some Russian capital, I was absolutely not thinking of myself in terms of a "Fool for Christ" ... if any Orthodox think "but you should", my response is, sorry, I have already heard that and no thanks.

Let's consider St. Benedict Joseph Labre. In Trier, I was about a week in 2005, on my road from Berlin to Paris, and I was getting to Paris, for the same person I had got to Berlin for, the same person who had partly inspired me to and certainly been kind of a goal in my pilgrimage to Santiago in 2004. I did not want to discuss her with strangers, so, when at "Benedikt Joseph Labre-Haus" in Trier, someone told me to get in line for social workers, instead of explaining my "no" in terms of Trier being where she wasn't, when I was told I was doing a bad thing, I pointed out that he hadn't been seeking employment or social assistance.

Someone may have taken this as me providing an affirmation of my intention of living as he, the rest of my life, this is very clearly not the case. Trying to enforce this spirituality on all I do is robbery. It's kidnapping. Part of my personal reasons for leaving the Orthodox (there were doctrinal ones too, like the Filioque being in a letter by St. Athanasius of Alexandria or in the First Council of Toledo) was my impression the Orthodox parish I belonged to had taken this approach. No. I tried to ask them what they were praying for and unfortunately phrased it like "pour quoi priez-vous, pour moi" (what do you pray for, for me) and this can be taken as "pourquoi priez-vous pour moi" (why are you praying for me), which is not what I meant. I got no answer. This confirmed my impression they were praying for that, and no, that was absolutely not my goal. I hoped to get a chance to clear it up.

I was asked some time after my arrival in Paris (again, not 2005, but 2009) and return to FSSPX by two Dominicans "you are aware that Francis and Dominic were doing what you do?" and tired to exhaustion and the coffee I was offered hadn't worked yet, I said "yes" hoping for a follow up question that never came. They should have asked me "so, you are doing what they did?" and I would have answered no. They did all things I did related to poverty and lots more, but they did it for another goal and I did not do it, like they for living the rest of my life in penance. But I was never given the chance to clarify. I tried to clarify to André Vingt-Trois that this was not what I had meant, but NO ... I got no answer. I feel trapped in a "Roman Catholic" rumour mill, which doesn't follow Roman Catholic canon law (not even 1983, I think) about the modalities for verifying a monastic vocation.

B) I see some part of my reasons for returning from Orthodoxy* are being reviewed time after time:

Mystagogy posts certainly false allegation on St Robert Bellarmine, ("Mystagogy" was then the openly accessible blog of one John Sanidopoulos), 2212 views, Pseudoquote identified. What De Romano Pontifice, book IV, chapter V really says (quote), 4175 views, Further faults of fact in the Mystagogy post, 1331 views.

So, these are two reasons. There is a reason why I do not usually bring this up, namely, they are being (like that priest family whom I asked that question at an agape meal) very reticent about having any kind of intention when it comes to me. Also, when it comes to being indignated with my return to Catholicism, which I notified one metropolitan about, they are kind of free to feel bad about it.** And when it comes to the first theme, I think a few others have greater culpability than they do.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
III L.D. of Advent
14.XII.2025

PS, if someone pretends, among Orthodox or Catholics, real ones or Vatican II ones, to test whether I'm a true prophet, that's also totally a criminal waste of my time, since my writing doesn't claim to be prophecy. It sometimes deals with prophecy, but it isn't prophecy.***/HGL

* Or to actual orthodoxy. ** But not to invent lies. The metropolitan in question is the one who had been mine back when I was in communion with them. *** See: I Believe in Prophecy. Doesn't Mean I Believe I'm a Prophet